Maine's Governor is dumb as the others

 The puzzle confuses most Mainers: Why is yet ANOTHER Governor stuck on the Sears Island flypaper of dreams flapped at her by such disreputable creatures as Angus King and his first Marine Commissioner, Robin Alden?

Will it  help to  consider a distant place similar but completely different?  Though defacto Governess of this sprawling forest & salt paradise - comfortably barred from  Awaysian America,  Janet Trafton Mills  would be instantly rebuffed if  she brought forth suggestions  so ecologically destructive to the prefecture' s salmon eels and other  migratory and  the stay-at-home-maority of species. Further it for the interim dashes hopes for  a sister state/prefecture agreement, where the Ainu would work with  Wabanki in the Aninus desperate efforts to preserve their language and their millenia of culture from finally washing away in the Sands of Time  

   Maine ever reminds me of my late partners' home prefecture Hokkaido. As the New World Encyclopedia helpfully states of  Hokkaido (accent on 2nd syllable)  "...formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso  and Yes-So (. is... Japan's largest northernmost and most sparsely populated of its 47 prefectual level subdivisions."     More about this later.    

Govneronor. Mills appears to cling to the "blitzkreig" theory of getting what she wants. There is no other reason Maine's Governor clings to thiswitless notion notion , than has been roundly rejected so many times by its neighbor town, by courts , by federal agencies and the braver state agencies

Many a Maine governor past tried to fool the people by demanding his (or now HER) natural resource agencies DMR and IFW, and the Maine DOT to concoct at least superficially plausible rationales to convince a skeptical the US Army Corps of Engineers. They all failed.

As Ronald Reagan would've said with an exasperated eyeroll: {potentially defamatory comparison deleted. to meetFB stds]

King's first DMR commissioner Robin Alden actually managed to disgrace that Department more than all the past ones combined, as a look look through the . She filed nonsensical "comments" with the Federal Highway Administration and US Army Corps of Engineers.
Bunch of silliness about the island being just more same-old same-old Maine coast, only wrapped around an Island . So no biggie to trash it. Miles and miles of the Maine coast have shoreline stuff , Robin Alden essentially sneered. Not remotely important enough to block jobs and prosperity for Searsport, the State of Maine and Industry
https://www.penbay.org/searsisland/history/si_95_dmr_alden_acoefwha101395/

Robin Alden was jeered from coast to coast by actual marine ecologists not impressed that she had been editor of a big commercial fishery tabloid. Reporting on reporting on what fishermen fishermen do doesn't nessarily translate to understanding WHY the species they harvest need any particular places during their many life stages.

A firm yet furious response by Dr. Fred Short pf UNH New England's top eelgrass expert to the Army Corps so fully rebutted this reeking word salad that the King's minion discharged at them . https://www.penbay.org/searsisland/si_short_alden113095.html

T he Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute freshly hatched atlantic cod larvae require as immediate prey a high density in the water of soft-bodied marine microbes called amoebas. For the first 10-15 days after hatching, larval cod lack jaws capable of breaking open for the tiny fish to survive the first ten to fifteen days of their lives.

As the WHOI researchers put it, the tiny fish require:

"soft-bodied microzooplankton in the size range of 40 to 80 m at a nominal concentration of about 2 cells ml-1 in order to maximize survival through yolk-sac absorption (~10-15 days post-hatch)."

Have literally need for "babyfood" (soft bodied marine amoebas) during their Age Zero 1st year since hatching the nursery waters at a a minimum density. what they do

We ought respect this ecologically sacred place. See the several square miles of Federal designated and mapped Habitat Area of Particular Concern for Inshore Juvenile Atlantic Cod"?, as amended squaremiles of federally of Irresisible River embracing the Moon-slaved unstoppable Bay one of the Gulf of Maine subplumes that's been braided into the Eastern Maine Coastal Current since the Labrador Current dropped himn up to Fundy, ...[Note to animists: the EMCC is notoriously the most obsessivly talkative of the Gulf of Maine's family currents. if the let them that opted to head north for the poking of one or more of its its million subplumes, bursting with wild passengers young and old pouring UPSTREAM